Director
B.Arch, M.Arch
London, UK
Melodie Leung
Photograph by Frederic Aranda ©
Melodie Leung
Melodie has led the delivery of award-winning projects across architecture, interiors, products, exhibitions, installations, and collaborations with renowned institutions worldwide. In her work, she emphasises community-centred and experiential design approaches. Elected by her peers to the board of the firm’s employment benefit trust, she is driving ZHA’s commitment to community social responsibility.
Melodie’s multidisciplinary portfolio includes interior design concepts for major projects such as Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou, The Henderson in Hong Kong, and The Magazine restaurant at the Serpentine North Gallery. She has also contributed to monographic exhibitions on ZHA’s works at the Guggenheim in New York, MAM Shanghai, and the Guardian Art Centre Beijing. Her latest work includes The Dalmore Luminary No. 2, a sculptural whisky bottle.
Courtesy of The Dalmore ©
The Dalmore - Luminary No.2
Featured Project
The Luminary Series 2024 Edition, a unique sculptural presentation case for the 49-year-old The Luminary - The Rare - 2024 Edition and packaging for the 16-year-old The Collectible – 2024 Edition, brings together ZHA’s Melodie Leung with The Dalmore’s Gregg Glass, with the support and expertise of Master Distiller Richard Paterson OBE.
Melodie completed her Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Master of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP) at Columbia University in the US. She has been involved in teaching design studios at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, Columbia University, and Pratt University in New York.
Melodie is deeply engaged in contemporary culture, organising conferences that foreground women in architecture, acting as a jury member for institutions such as the Design Museum and the City of London Corporation, and serving as a Trustee of Chisenhale Gallery.
Melodie comes from a multicultural background and was immersed in art and music from an early age. This art–culture blend informs her design process, where she brings together people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to explore and create contemporary projects.
Image © ZHA, Refik Anadol Studio, with OpenAI DALL-E 2
Exhibitions
From major retrospectives about ZHA to our designs showcasing the work of others.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Melodie has contributed to since joining ZHA.
Photograph by Iwan Baan
Education
The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Tall Buildings
Offices
Developed on the world’s most valuable site purchased by Henderson Land, the 36-storey tower's design shelters new civic plazas enveloped by nature, creating an urban oasis in the centre of the city. Accommodating enhanced workplace flexibility, the building’s smart management system creates a contactless pathway for all occupants, eliminating all contact with communal surfaces.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Tall Buildings
Residential
One Thousand Museum is a 62-storey residential tower opposite Museum Park in Miami. With views across Biscayne Bay, this popular 30-acre park was redeveloped in 2013 as one of downtown Miami's primary public spaces and includes the city's new art and science museums.
Photograph by Xue Liang 薛亮
Offices
Mixed Use
Infinitus Plaza is the new global headquarters of Infinitus China. Incorporating work environments designed to nurture connectivity, creativity and entrepreneurship, the new headquarters also includes the group’s herbal medicine research facilities and safety assessment labs as well as a learning centre for conferences and exhibitions.
Courtesy of The Dalmore ©
The Dalmore - Luminary No.2
Products
The Luminary Series 2024 Edition, a unique sculptural presentation case for the 49-year-old The Luminary - The Rare - 2024 Edition and packaging for the 16-year-old The Collectible – 2024 Edition, brings together ZHA’s Melodie Leung with The Dalmore’s Gregg Glass, with the support and expertise of Master Distiller Richard Paterson OBE.
Hospitality
The Serpentine North Gallery consists of two distinct parts, namely the conversion of a classical 19th century brick structure – The Magazine – and a 21st century tensile structure. The Serpentine North Gallery is thus – after MAXXI in Rome – the second art space where ZHA have created a synthesis of old and new.
Photograph by Joel Chester Fildes
Manchester International Festival July 2009
Installations + Pavilions
A unique chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of J S Bach works – enhancing the multiplicity of his music by using a single, continuous ribbon of fabric which continuously changes, stretches, compresses and moves around itself to cocoon both performers and audience within an intimate fluid space.
Image © ZHA, Refik Anadol Studio, with OpenAI DALL-E 2
Virtual Spaces
Installations + Pavilions
Exhibitions
Architecting the Metaverse’ is an immersive art project at the intersection of architecture, art, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI). It is the result of a 6-month collaboration between Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) and ZHA.
Courtesy of Hong Kong Design Institute - HKDI
Vertical Urbanism Exhibition at Hong Kong Design Institute 15.02-03.04.2022
Exhibitions
Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) (Lee Wai Lee), together with its affiliated HKDI Gallery present its flagship exhibition of the year 'ZHA: Vertical Urbanism' as part of their ‘Essence of Design’ programme.
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